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PAGE TWO ! OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 29, AIT Tr PS Cork dt 1922 Ywn The Ontario Reformer (Established In 1871, An independent newspaper pub- lished every other day (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons) at Oshawa, Canada, by The Reformer Printing and Publishing Company Limited, Charles M. Mundy, Presi- dent, Managing Director and Treas- urer; A. R. Alloway, Assistant Man- ager. GEO. A. MARTIN £ditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by Carrier in Oshawa or by mail anywhere in Canada $3.00 a year, United States subscriptions $1.50 extra to cover postage. Single copies 5c. OSHAWA, SAT. JULY 29, 1922, INSECTS AND MEN Every insect has his day. present three varieties have captured a place in the news. Culex pipiens, the canny black mosquito which folds its wings and quietly slips through window screens, has taken Manhat- tan for his own. Caterpillars have invaded the parks in greater num- bers than the park employees have observed in many years. The sand flea swarms in Washington. Just at It is our habit to take the insect | lightly unless we are farmers or fruit growers, As a matter of fact, there is no animate force in the world with greater potentiality for destruction than that contained in the 5,000,000 or more existing species of Man has no more powerful enemy. Happily, nature strikes something of a balance between the ruin caused hy insects and the positive some of them insects, value which possess. Insects cause an amount of damage ten times greater than that wrought | by fire. The United States Depart ment of Agriculture found that the] annual tax imposed by insects upon] the agricultural and timber indus- tries of the country is greater than the yearly pre-war expenditures the Federal Government. sian fly destroys from 10 per cent. to 50 per cent. of the sowings of wheat, rye and barley, causing a loss of $75,- 000,000 The Mexican | of annually, chinch bug every year kills $20,000,-| 000 in corn, and which attack the times as much again. cotton $85,000,000 year. The damage to live stock « ed by insects and ticks is at $420,000,000. These examples, The remarkable devastations certain kill The los: worms corn ir amounts to arc only the not thing about of insects is that, withstanding man' ledge of what insects do and his suc- cess in deviging some tection means of pro the are from them, loses for which they appear to be increasing. economic responsib! There are biological reasons for the insects' superior strength. Consider the success with which insects come through the struggle for ex istence. Monstrous forms of life perished while they have Long the plagues in they were the enemies of man. They possess incomparable advantage in that their growth is at the ha Ye pave before Ezyp an most a matter of days and that their power of reproduction is heyond tation. It -is not at all insect life will some the earth. Perhaps some hundreds of thousands of years hence dominant sounds will have ceased, and instead of the hum of innumer impossible all our able planes the air will be filled with | a great buzzing. EDITORIAL COMMENTS | Oshawa letter beside the alarm boxes. hoxes look recently-painted pale fire There are still some vacant lots that are ments to the landscape. weeds not Cobourg will be tendered a ing ladder in the series as Oshawa. second C.0.B.L. Peaches are reported to be" The Hes-| threo | oof estimated | increased know- | persisted. | our cempu that | day overwhelm vote | of thanks for keeping Peterhoro onl the same rung of the baseball stand- | Scene from "WILD HONEY" at theNew Wednesday Martin Monday, Tuesday and THEATRES AN UNUSUAL WOMAN AS FILM HEROINE From the top strata of English society to the lowest depths of the miniature underworld in South Af- rican cities goes the story of "Wild Honey," a Universal-Jewel attrac- tion starring Priscilla Dean, which comes to the Martin Theatre next | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. | "Wild Honey" was written as {novel by Cynthia Stockley and filmed at Universal City under the direction |of Wesley Ruggles. Supporting the star are such widely known players | as Robert Ellis, Wallace and Noah | Be ery, Raymond Blathwayt, Perey | Challenger, Lloyd Whitlock, Helen Raymond, Landers Stévens, Carl Stockdale, C, J. Frank and Harry | De Roy. | Lucien Hubbard, scenario editor at Universal City, was assigned to prepare ft in continuity form for Miss Dean. Special paing were taken in the picturization of the story to | preserve the intensely dramatic | struc ture of the plot. As it was film- | ed the story presented the players with a gamut of varied acting oppor- tunities. The cast made full use of jevery detail of the narrative in cre- ating a histrionic masterpiece. Lady Vivienne, central figure of the story, is well sued to the dyna- | mic Dean personality. In imperson- [ating the character Miss Dean is call- ied on for full use of the striking manner, fascinating gestures and deep emotional capacities for which [she is known, » big thrill in the picture comes |w on n aay Vivienne saves her sweet- | heart from a flood caused by the das- tardly blowing up of a dam, [WILD MAN FINDS WILD, WILD WOMAN the athletic star Witwer "Leather the ringside re- Reginald Denny, the H.C. Pushers" stories of leased by Universal, the first of which is to be shown at the New Martin Theatre next Monday, drop- ped into a quick lunch restaurant near the studio for a bite and hap- pened=~to "park" himself near an in- dividual whose voice and appear- ance proclaimed him to be a rough customer, who had recently imbib- ed too freely of forbidden liquors. "Big Anna," a veteran hash chap- eron, and the presiding genius at the *beanery," paid no heed to his loud demands for service and took her time about asking for his order. "Action, gimme action," exploded the noise maker, punctuating his al conversation by pounding the table. "I am a wild man and I want some wild meat." "Well," invitingly, starter, suggested "Big Anna," 'take a bite of me as a They say I'm a 'bear'." FLIVVER REAL HERO IN NEW WALLACE REID FILM LITTLE CAR 'MAKES GREAT) SPEED AND WINS RACE IN YACROSS THE CONTINENT" The small type of motor car, cor- responding with the much ridiculed "flivver" plays the hero role among the props in "Across the Continent," a new Paramount picture starring Wallace Reid which comes to the Regent Theatre next Monday, day and Wednesday, "This is the first time," ron Morgan, author of the scenario, "that a small popular type has heen cast for a heroic role in a film. Ordinarily it is the big powerful machine that gets in the limelight, But here we have the 'Dent' car with the star at the wheel, winning out and playing a big role (Continued page 3) WHO IS THE MOST HANDSOME MAN ON THE SCREEN? WALL Y REID ACROSS THE CONTINENT said By story and car of the on Consider That The Firemen's Duty is to save life first and property afterward He cannot prevent loss, for onee fire starts, the loss commences. 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Printers to Clash Tuesday Evening "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war," and when printers meet printers then are forms and ball games pied forever, sine the Alger Press has been sharpening its sword on a few of the other teams in town and The Reformer has been It's a Fact! 4 Somebody (his name was Dave Holtzman -- his age 18). .q Took a $1000 Endow- ment Policy for which he undertook to pay $761.25--spread over a period of 35 years But the profits, distri- buted annually, so re- duced his premiums that he paid only $515.24--in actual cash So that Dave's net re- sults at the age of 53 were: -- 35 years' protection and $197.67 for each $100. he paid the Company. If that is the kind of re- turns you appreciate, sec the London Life represen- tative at once. 1 22Y4 Simcoe St. London Life Insurance Company Policies "Good as Gold" HEAD OFFICE -- LONDON, ONT. Agencies in all principal cities. District Representative E. HUBBARD holding inter-office take a fall out of each Tuesday evening the ri news rooms will be ball field, when summer, once decided. The the Horation starting poorly on Alger staff (youn thought we wer to say all) the Newspaper Champion ship of the Town of Oshawa will be ling abilities to draw fogether a world Telegram counts on but ending valry of and for principle wattle, |quns, but The Reformer boys aver both are now go cocky they want to [that if they get started in the other and on |few the | stopped till darkness ends their transfered to the the o going working of [former up great | field, | lg superintendent, nevertheless The Re- Rules to ~ ghvern):-- Fry, p; Rodgers, 1b; Livesey or Wilkinson, ss; Zeihr, 3b; McNeil, rf; Clancy, ef and Tyrell, If. The rest of the staff acts as subs. Association Rorabeck, c¢; Lacombe, 2b; first be bat- bee. 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